Episodes
Institute of Historical Research
The Muses of War: Terror, Anger, and Faith during the Bombing of British and Japanese Cities, 1940-1945
Chair: Naoko Shimazu
(Birkbeck)
Aaron Moore
(University of Manchester)
The bombing war was an attack on urban citizens that was largely new to human history, producing many strange effects and experiences. The soldiers’ battlefield was distant, but in an age of ‘total war’ mobilisation the enemy’s targets included the civilian population; in both Japan...
Published 04/25/16
Institute of Historical Research
War, the state, and the formation of the North Korean industrial working class, 1931-1960
Dr Owen Miller
(SOAS)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 03/02/16
Institute of Historical Research
No Country for Old Crocodiles: Fraudulent Paperworks, the Commodity Fetish, and Political Ecology in Colonial Burma
Dr Jonathan Saha
(University of Leeds)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 12/10/15
Institute of Historical Research
Forging India's Democratic Citizenship: The Preparation of the First Elections 1947-1952
Dr Steven Ericson
(Dartmouth College)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 12/02/15
Institute of Historical Research
'Islands in Asian History': an opening roundtable event
The Dilemmas of Islanding: Sri Lanka in the Early Modern Period
Dr Zoltan Biedermann | UCL
Commodity and Sovereignty Production in the North Pacific: The Marcus Island Incident of 1902
Dr Paul Kreitman | IHR
Islands, Ports, and Maritime Networks in Nineteenth Century
Dr Jeppe Mulich | LSE
Heligoland: Notes on a (Very) Small Island
Dr Jan Rueger | Birkbeck
Comparative Histories of Asian seminar series
Published 10/15/15
Institute of Historical Research
The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond
Dr Micah Muscolino
(University of Oxford)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 03/04/15
Institute of Historical Research
Rashid al-Din, Bolad Chengxiang, and Cultural Administration in the Mongol Empire: Imperial Ambitions and Local Identities in the Production of Art, History, and Science
Dr Vivienne Lo
(UCL)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 02/05/15
Institute of Historical Research
Survivors: Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Rise of Global memory Culture
Dr Ran Zwigenberg
(Pennsylvania State University)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
This session is jointly sponsored by the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck University of London
Published 11/27/14
Institute of Historical Research
Toward a Transnational History of Manchuria and the Korean War, 1945-1955
Dr Adam Cathcart
(University of Leeds)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 11/13/14
Institute of Historical Research
The Samurai Next Door: The Bushido (Way of the Warrior) Ideology and Chinese Views of Modern Japan
Dr Oleg Benesch
(University of York)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar series
Published 05/28/14
Institute of Historical Research
A Tale of Two Mosques: Impresarios of Islam in America and Japan
Professor Nile Green (UCLA)
Comparative Histories of Asia
Published 05/14/14
Institute of Historical Research
Dr David Motadel (University of Cambridge)
Comparative Histories of Asia
Published 03/05/14
Institute of Historical Research
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Universal Crime, Particular Punishment: Trying the Atrocities of the Japanese Occupation as Treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953
Dr Konrad Lawson (University of St. Andrew’s)
Published 02/20/14
Institute of Historical Research
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
Comparative Histories of Asia
Published 02/06/14
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar
Institute of Historical Research
23 January 2014
Ideology in Asia Doctoral Presentations:
Joshua de Cruz (Birkbeck)
Vivienne Guo (KCL)
- Beyond Ideology: Personalising the political experience of Chinese intellectual women in the War of Resistance
Steve Ivings (LSE)
- Setting Imperial Japan’s Far North: The Ideology, Policy and Practice of Colonial Settlement in Karafuto
Mark Walsh (Birkbeck)
- The International Language? English and the Changing Face...
Published 01/23/14
Dr Mark R. Frost (Essex), Dr Christopher Gerteis (SOAS), Professor Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck)
Comparative Histories of Asia seminar
Institute of Historical Research
10 October 2013
Published 11/29/13